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During KDE start lots of programs are loading but usually I begin to work in the konsole rightaway. However as it starts I need to enter commands to start applications, enter passwords for KDE Wallet and so on.

Other programs that start up steal the focus of the window I currently work with. That is extremely annoying to me as I have to enter passwords multiple times because I don't know where I was interrupted by typing it.

I tried to set rules here and I also set "Disable Focus Stealing" to extreme. According the manual this should disable focus stealing at all and the user must select windows manually. However this seems to have no effect. kwallet pops up, did not get the focus but the application (for example konsole) I used before loses the focus and when I was typing at the moment the new window popped up, some typing gets lost. Same happens when you start an application that takes quite some time to load and you want to work in the background with another app. As soon as the first application is loaded, it is put to front. And don't to speak of the annoying progress bar windows of kontact when it fetches mails every now and then. I don't want to get bugged by this. But I don't find any entry in KDE how to prevent this.

If I want to use shell only, I simply run my machine in runlevel 3. However one has to run corporate software, want to browse the web in a fancy way, want to read pdfs and so on. So usually everyone has multiple applications open when working with the pc. Thats the reason why there are such things as multitasking.

I have multible applications open most of the time too, and
so using 6 desktops in KDE. It will sometimes happen that a
pop up message from e.g desktop 4 will appear on my workplace
at desktop 2. But that is more dependent of the running
application itself and not the window manager.
There could be ways in the applications to avoid it.